Women of the Renaissance I would like to think that women had some sort of influence pre Renaissance that helped with empowerment and confidence. The unfortunate truth is that pre Renaissance women did not have a Rosie the Riveter type figure to lead them in an estrogen fueled rage while they fight for places in democracy, working the jobs they wanted, and showing the power they truly possessed, so instead, women sat back and remained in solitude until the 1400’s. Their fight for independence was followed by a common theme. Women of the Renaissance were used as building blocks for women today that identified as a problem, solution, effect for the human rights crisis of blatant sexism. The things that these women accomplished during their time helped being a modern woman a little easier. The following contains women who decided enough was enough and fought sexism and bias to the core that eventually lead to some of the most popular inventions and art known from the middle ages. Women’s role in the pre Renaissance period were where our current twentieth century thinking comes from. The roles were vastly different from eastern Europe to western Europe” The status of women differed immensely by region. In most of Western Europe, later marriage and higher rates of definitive celibacy (the so-called "European marriage pattern") helped to constrain patriarchy at its most extreme level. The rise of Christianity and manorialism had both created incentives to keep families